Federal judge rules that Trump’s Twitter feed is a public forum and that the president has violated the First Amendment by blocking users Trump Twitter ruling doesn’t mean all of Twitter is subject to the First Amendment, just Trump’s account…
A few weeks after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, alt-right luminary Richard Spencer delivered a celebratory address at the National Policy Institute’s annual conference in Washington, D.C. “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” Spencer chanted to rousing…
Like Sweeney Todd with a straight razor, Twitter has begun slashing the accounts of far-right extremists, enacting a new set of anti-hate speech protocols and inspiring the hashtag #TwitterPurge. As part of the new regime, the San Francisco-based social media…
Attempting to squelch the free-speech rights of others can prove disastrous. Just ask the City of Charlottesville, Virginia. A 207-page independent report, commissioned by the Charlottesville City Council and completed on November 24, reveals the march of folly that preceded…
